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Sentence Examples Food sources aside, the meal was a lot of fun, not least because of the genial company and the friendly service. His luminous intelligence and genial argumentativeness made it respectable to be a dissenter. With his rouged cheeks and talcumed face, he resembled a genial eighteenth century wind-up doll waving welcome with choppy strokes. The husband was a tall and genial fellow, friendly, youthful and easy-going. Skeptics say the genial chief executive is just a well-connected corporate diplomat, a schmoozy pol in pinstripes. It is written very much in the author's voice, that genial, somewhat bumbling, self-deprecating character we all think we know. But few who applaud true sportsmanship would begrudge this genial chap every prize available. The Octet's members placed a high priority on a full singing tone, honeyed legato playing, and warm, genial musicianship. This genial cricketer has also shown that a batsman does not have to really belt the ball to emerge a match-winner. Plodding of that type seldom facilitates benignity, genial tolerance towards opponents, or leisurely musings on the joys of artistic creation. In March he delivered another show-stopping performance and gave a genial speech at his induction to the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame. His trusting management style, and his genial manner, were no longer admired. It's more a genial look at the origins and peak moments of different fads in 20th Century America. Herbert was a bon viveur who loved fast cars, foreign travel, fine wines, mountain air, and genial company. The 73-year old former street-brawler now comes across as more of a genial, boorishly humorous gameshow host. The genial tone and resolutely unreligious perspective do, however, produce a certain leveling effect. What this misses is the fact that he was also genial and unstuffy, with a capacity to make himself agreeable. He was a pleasant and genial countryman whose neighbourly qualities were much to the fore throughout his life. Nonetheless, he is a genial man and he will sometimes give guided tours to visitors, if he's not too busy. He was always genial, with the parochialism and humour of his north-eastern background. Show More Sentences And having more than you can conceivably use of such objects is not met with opprobrium but with genial acceptance. And, for those willing to hire a cab, this genial river town serves up a game of golf as good as the chimichangas at Tomatillos. The foyers curve round the perimeter of the fan-like plan with genial and transparent openness. The cloacal and genial glands were chosen because they release pheromones used in mate attraction or courtship. Of the entire team, Elvira was the most companionable, genial and impressionable member, always bubbling with enthusiasm and high spirits. The restaurant is owned by three genial Irishmen who used to serve a simple French menu to their neighborhood clientele. Isherwood's bright-eyed alertness, his lack of malice, his genial delight in the foibles of others all make him lovable. They are a genial, amiable lot, and they come across as personable and excruciatingly ethical in the course of the series. And eventually, I came to realize that I was not the genial gentleman of my imaginings, but I was indeed a cad. She was the most companionable, genial and impressionable member of the team, always bubbling with enthusiasm and high spirits. In addition to gaining seriousness, the genial, good-natured boy becomes a sarcastic and bitter man. Every holiday I have, I come back to Shanghai, I find life here is so much easier, the people are so genial and friendly. A genial and gracious host, and a conscientious hospital chaplain, he was to spend the next twelve years in these ministries. He's a smart, genial fellow but he seems more like a sympathetic bank manager than a king of comedy. It was a rare outburst from the 23-year-old, normally as genial and calm outside the ring as he is explosive in it. With a genial approach but a firm hand, the galley is run with the efficiency of a five star restaurant. Indeed, the genial 50-year-old has a lot of friends throughout the close-knit UK network. To one and all, this most genial of personalities was affectionately known as Mickey. The sun shone with a genial warmth that added very materially to the enjoyment of the huge crowd. The genial married priest, who has six children, draws back from calling the people of the area pagans and denies he came from Uganda to convert. Show More Sentences The genial exterior hid a wily political mind which made his public pronouncements feared by many politicians. He has such a genial, grandfatherly manner that criminals seem genuinely relieved to be able to confess to him. On the surface he is a genial giant, effusive in his thanks when handed a drink. Even genial mockery largely dried up for a while, replaced by an unprecedented flood of patriotic gush and mush. His real kindness was shown by genial estimates of character and liberal appreciation of the labours of others engaged in kindred studies. Baino is the most genial, laughing at situations that, in retrospect, probably drove him to drink. Dapper of dress and genial of manner, Corbett seems the antithesis of the tortured comic suffering endless agonies for his art. His many friends and supporters in Killarney send their best regards to the genial Christy and we all hope to see him out and about very soon. The host, a long-haired bloke with a Northern accent, was a genial non-condescending guide. Alan Rickman has a lot of fun reprising his role as the sneering Professor Snape and Robbie Coltrane is routinely excellent as the genial Hagrid. The other two, one of whom is startlingly pretty, launch into an genial explanation of why I should give them some money. The solemnity of the story is relieved by the humour of the rustic travellers at the Rainbow Inn, and the genial motherliness of Dolly Winthrop, who befriends Silas. All was jolly and genial between the king of late night and the pretender to the throne. Hiddleston, a genial fellow, looks mighty dapper in a bespoke three-piece suit. He is a genial companion, coaxing the reader through unfamiliar material and finding colour, humour and literary appeal in the most unlikely places. His sparkling blue eyes and happy smile showed a genial personality. Immediately we are reassured by our genial host Eddie Spear that we have plenty time to freshen up before our much-anticipated dinner and he urges us to repair forthwith. He was too much of a gentleman, however, too genial and good-natured, too averse to controversy to agitate for the major generalcy he knew he deserved. Strung out on a punishing regimen of diet pills, the once genial young man becomes a sullen, self-pitying wreck. He felt the students piled behind him surge out of the doors and walk around him hurriedly, as he stopped for a moment to breathe in the genial summer air. Show More Sentences Immaculately besuited, he is every inch the genial Latino gentleman. The owner is front of house and seems permanently genial and benign as we all might be if we lived, as he, his wife and children do, in such a mood-improving environment. It shows a benign countenance, the face of a genial, gentle man. A few weeks on, his genial countenance has frozen into icy indifference. Her father was genial, well-meaning and only mildly traditionalistic. A small rectangular bone cut is made inside the lower lip, below the gums and tooth roots, centered over the genial tubercle, above the inferior border of the jaw. The owner scooted over from doing his genial rounds of the table and scooped up the hapless moggy, depositing him safely but unceremoniously on the street outside. Tasted blind, Chateau Benoit's genial '00 Riesling, from the Willamette Valley in Oregon, might fool Germanophiles into thinking it came from the Mosel, a Riesling Eden. The interviews are shot on cameras so unobtrusive, and with a host so genial, that at times his guests genuinely seem to reveal their true selves. It was a culture nibbling on the genial jingoism of Norman Vincent Peale and being made somewhat uncomfortable by Adlai Stevenson. The genial German-born pianist Wolfram Rieger accompanies in a very sensitive way regarding both the demands of the composition and the needs of the singer. The genial dialogue between Lovelace and her costar, Harry Reems, is like a vaudeville routine. For most of the day he'd be the genial, bonhomous, fruity old wine-slurper you see on television and then at night he'd turn into a raging paranoid misanthrope. I should add that the stations' hosts were genial even as they fired questions at me that they will have heard other guests or callers refer to repeatedly. The colourful and flamboyant solicitor, famous for his Cuban cigars, quick wit, and genial sense of devilment, attained folk hero status among the showbiz fraternity. The man couldn't be offensive even if he tried and once the conversation centred around greyhounds and horses the genial Caseyville man was in his element. Patient and genial, Ms. Sandhya took the children into confidence from the very start, retorting with jokes, poetry and the occasional repartee to drive home a point. Some wandered in a genial trance wearing the faraway, slightly shell-shocked look of the recently colonically irrigated. Yet, when people meet the man, they find that he is funny, genial, witty and charming and seemingly wouldn't hurt a fly, let alone drive a rival out of business. How many people are genial and super-competent on the surface while a cataclysmically intense world churns just inside their skulls? Show More Sentences Collectively, I think, but am not certain, they are the worst men in the regiment so far as genial blackguardism goes. He is thoroughly business, but has the happy faculty of transacting it in a genial and courteous manner. His affectionate disposition and genial manners made him much loved and held in warm regard by many of his contemporaries. Ipswich fan, adopted cockney and genial gagster Tony Cowards completes the line-up along with compere Danny McLoughlin. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. Indeed, an assessment of the part-song edition is possible only against the age's genial predilection. The suprahyoid muscles were not deliberately detached from the genial tubercles in any of the cases. Composed and genial, the Corries cut an impressive figure in the sun-drenched Haifa courthouse. About fifty years later, in 1675, the Danish astronomer Ole Roemer had the genial idea of using astronomical rather than terrestrial distances. Men of genius have often attached the highest value to their less genial works. The well breath'd youth, hot-mettled, and flush with genial juices, was now fairly in for making me know my driver. With strong unconventionality and a somewhat abrupt manner, he was genial and kindly in his feelings, with warm affections and great companionability. This genial, frail, chain-smoking septuagenarian is an agreeable, good-humoured conversationalist, who frequently punctuates proceedings with hearty, coughy chuckles. But genial to the last, Archie pays the bill, waves to the head waiter. A large, genial woman, she ruled the fort kitchen and its Indian helpers ironhandedly. Within her own domain, no one trifled with Charlotte Green. Like some of the underground comic books, Miller's work was heavy with raw id, but his genial angst-less style made itfamiliar and cheerful rather than dark and disturbing. Examples from Classical Literature On the receipt of this note, genial forward me your samples by returning mail together with price list. Provost Goodfellow was a most genial soul, and particularly fond of association football. What has such a genial creature in common with our anaemic and woolly generation? It was his babbling about Dom Diego that had ruined the genial old physician. It was not likely that the others had noticed it, for his manner was as genial and urbane as ever. He hails the Rev. Septimus with a genial laugh and a hearty grasp of the hand. He makes merry over the weaknesses of those who follow the craft of Old Izaak, always with the slyest of genial manners. In the main Leech, on whose pencil the burden of social commentary fell, was a genial satirist of feminine foibles. The genial system of billeting was in vogue, too, so that every bed was full. They were accustomed to see him in a more genial mood when he had a friend to dine. Under that genial breath the colour came slowly back to madams cheek and lip, and her heart beat more strongly. He had the most suasive, genial, and gentlemanly comedy manner conceivable, and was never for a minute away from the footlights. The third portion, or epilogue, appears to be ascribable chiefly to the genial love of Homer for the horse. It was plain that he was determined not to be jarred out of his genial mood. There was something so frank and genial about him, he seemed, like the wine I had been quaffing, warming to the heart. There was with us a genial, pleasant, larky young fellow, one of the famous family of the MacCooks. The music of this work in three acts was the swan song of the genial Benjamin Godard. When the fire is made, you want to sit in front of it and grow genial in its effulgence. He had an astonishing memory, was brilliant as an epigrammatist, was a great reader and a most genial companion. The kind and genial character of the captain had, evidently, its influence on the opposite races thus fortuitously congregated together. Show More Sentences His manners are affable and genial, his disposition frank and generous. And is this genial old heretic an American avatar of the monk Bohaira? However, Chamberlin was a genial good soul and was crazy over stamps. He was very genial and very appreciative of what we had done, and took off our hands all cares as to details. It was like the supper of an ordinary Swiss hotel, and good red wine grown by the convent in more genial air was not wanting. The next morning she was coolly polite and Dillon determinedly genial. He is not only a saner and more genial but a more important person. The latter's genial nature and dressy appearance pleased him. We were all a very genial, congenial party of easy-going geniuses. Reaching it, he paused, offering the hand of genial fellowship. He invariably encouraged humour, this genial philanthropist. Before long it was roaring, and diffusing a genial warmth on all sides. Wherever he has gone he has left some Sparks of his own genial enthusiasm. He is a genial soul and generally liked in spite of his spirituous aroma. We doubt whether the genial captain is not describing the cheeriness of his own breast, which gave a cheery aspect to everything around him. He was genial and jocose, sunburnt and romantically allusive. The sweet cherry is at its best in a warm, sunny, genial, equable climate. They were a genial and comfortable couple, Justinus and his wife Martina. Martina, meanwhile, had made friends with Paula in her genial, frank way. There is plenty of genial love of Nature, but not so much of Nature herself. Show More Sentences Her prejudice against the minister had relaxed under his genial talk and presence, but feeling that Mrs. Hence, he was everywhere greeted with a genial and profuse hospitality. The genial, playful, puppyish side of him found little expression. She was genial, buxom and apple-faced, as becomes a landlady. He was a genial freebooter, living off the enemy, without fear or shame. The genial festival of Christmas, which throughout all Christendom lights up the fireside of home with mirth and jollity, followed hard upon the wedding just described. Forgetting that he was only a brute, he posited that this was no more than a brute with which he strove to play in the genial comradely way that the Skipper played. Under its genial influence the gloomy and morose become jovial and chatty. By the involuntary effect of a genial temperament, Phoebe soon grew to be absolutely essential to the daily comfort, if not the daily life, of her two forlorn companions. His features were pretty yet, and his eye and complexion brighter than I remembered them, though with merely temporary lustre borrowed from the salubrious air and genial sun. If there yet lurked any ice of indifference towards me in the Pagan's breast, this pleasant, genial smoke we had, soon thawed it out, and left us cronies. Besides their hostess and her sister, they found, in the long chilly drawing-room, only another shawled lady, a genial Vicar who was her husband, a silent lad whom Mrs. In helping here, he felt a genial glow of personal pleasure. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of genial? Words that rhyme with genial What is the adverb for genial? What is the adjective for genial? What is the noun for genial? Translations for genial Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Genghis Khan genghis Genevieve Genevese genever Genevan geniality genially genic genicular geniculate genie 6-letter Words Starting With g ge gen geni genia